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Updated 28 May 2017. WordPress 4.7 has just been released with the new Twenty Seventeen theme. This theme is designed more for business than bloggers. I decided to take a deep dive into what it can do. Twenty Seventeen Design Twenty Seventeen was designed by Mel Choyce of Automattic. (WordPress.com user? Twenty Seventeen became available on […]
What’s new in WordPress 4.7? WordPress 4.7 “Vaughan” was released earlier this week. It’s the last major update of the year from WordPress.org, and it gives us a new theme, new features and bug fixes. WordPress has now cemented its popularity as the top web CMS with over 27% of all sites running WordPress. The aim […]
So your WordPress site is built on a testing server and is ready to launch. But you still have some work to do before it’s ready and unleashed on the world. It’s not quite as simple as throwing up some files on the web and hoping for the best. Read through the steps below and […]
Do you find searching for and adding photos to WordPress a pain? Are you frustrated by the lack of image editing tools within WordPress? Then FotoPress might be the answer to your prayers! It bills itself as “the Photoshop for WordPress.” It’s also a mini-Google for finding the perfect image. In this post, I’ll take you through […]
A (brief) history of web typography Web designers used to be quite limited in font choice. It was recommended to use only web safe fonts – the small subset of fonts installed on both Windows and Mac computers. As Coffee Cup Software explained in their What is a web-safe font? post, that boiled down to only […]
What is a theme’s functions.php file? The functions.php file is a key part of any WordPress theme. It’s where the code runs that can do things like: set up the theme add widget areas register theme fonts add support for the WordPress Customizer add menu support It’s an essential file, and susceptible to breakage. Sometimes we […]
Following a question from someone in the Content Marketing Academy Membership Community about making a WordPress photo collage, I decided to investigate what plugins were on offer to do the job. I tested out 5 plugins, all free from WordPress.org. They were: Easy Image Collage Jetpack (Tiled Galleries Module) Collage Gallery H5P Wow Mood Board […]
Updated 14 May 2018. When I install WordPress on a site, one of the first things I do is set the permalink structure. What are permalinks? A WordPress permalink is the URL generated for new posts or pages on your site. The name comes from a merging of the words “permanent link”. Permalinks always start […]
Twenty Sixteen is a popular WordPress theme, but it doesn’t have all the features that people want. One of the issues is with the Social Links menu in the footer: it’s only suitable to add links to social media profiles. Any other links added to this menu will show up as a strange symbol because […]
A grid display of posts – that sounds cool… I’ve reviewed WordPress blog layout plugins before and found them a little clunky. They let you show a grid display of posts in WordPress. Themes sometimes have this built-in, but often they don’t. I’ve now discovered a new plugin to do the job and think it’s […]
